Quotes About Activity

People were mulling around, skittering about like moths on a lightbulb. Then

To be in "play" in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless activity.

Treating 'life' as an object to which we are more or less adequate excises crucial elements from life just at the very time that we are living it: such elements as sleep, rest, laziness, and the absence of labour, energy, and work. To say that these kinds of stasis are not living is not only to limit the plurality of life but to make it lopsided, tipping it towards the stresses that we find in modernity's cult of perpetual activity.

If you and I are resting or shirking or slacking, his Spirit is nevertheless on the move with somebody else somewhere else, for "behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep" (Ps. 121:4). God is always accomplishing his purposes.

Giving opens the way for receiving. In order to create activity in finances, one should give.

Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind. Ours is in mankind, not in the legislator.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.

Only staying active will make You want to a live a hundred years.

God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.

Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life.

its time for the which one is Hikaru-kun game!

Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes pains to create, this monotony which is slowly taking over the world, this monotony is the sign of our greatness. It bears the mark of a certain will-power, the will to utility; it is the expression of utility, a law that governs all our modern activity: the Law of Utility.

they focus on survival. Some never leave the survival stage. The more fortunate ones move on to the growth stage. Either way, they run the risk of getting caught in what Covey calls "the activity trap," the tendency "in the busy-ness of life to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.

Comme le travail ne présente aucune nécessité, sauf pour ceux dont il renforce le pouvoir, des travailleurs toujours plus nombreux passent d'une activité relativement utile à une activité relativement inutile, dans le simple but d'assurer le maintien de l'ordre, la paix sociale - car le travail est en soi la plus redoutable des polices.

It enumerates six planks, six varied spheres of activity--one economic, one regultory, one militant, one educational, one inspirational, one sweet Kumbaya--for putting our fractured Humpty Dumpty of a society back together again. And so we must. And so we shall.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf...

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

I still feel 30, except when I try to run.

Fortune, in the distribution of her gifts, resembles a good fellow throwing pennies into the air for children to scramble after. She does not cast to this and to that one according to their respective merits, but leaves chance and their own activity to determine who shall get the most of her bounty.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.